I’m waiting feverishly for the latest Ask the Maester column to go live on Grantland. Sooo… so many questions about that last episode and the Night King in particular.
So, I’m refreshing my feed reader and browser, hoping that this is the hour it goes up.
But wouldn’t it be easier if, like everything else in my life, I could just get an alert on my cellphone when something goes live?
Is there an app that I don’t know of that already does this? You input an RSS feed and the app sends you a notification when something new has been published. Podcast apps do this already of course, but is there an app that does this for traditional rss feeds? Is this something I can make happen somehow with IFTTT?
Let me know in the comments or ping me @brianmcc
(Thanks @davewiner)
UPDATE:
So, possibly the solution is boxcar.io? Testing now.
I actually have something that hooks RSS up to Slack via Node.js.
https://github.com/scripting/rssToSlack
But it’s not a service you can use, you have to run it yourself somewhere.
Slack does the notification.
They also have direct RSS integration, but I’m not sure how fast it is. I’m testing it now.
ifttt.com – use a recipe that pushes new feed items to a service like boxcar or pushbullet
IFTTT has an RSS channel. You can easily set it up to push a notification to you whenever a new item is added to any given RSS feed (look for the “Feed” channel, not “RSS”).
I do this all the time. Here’s the recipe that sends my iPhone an IFTTT push notification whenever a new chapter of One Piece is released:
https://ifttt.com/recipes/296431-new-one-piece-chapter
In response to the reply above about pushing to Boxcar – on iOS that isn’t necessary if you have the IFTTT app installed, since it’ll do its own push notifications that take you to the thing you’re being alerted to when tapped. This is probably the case for Android too, if they have an app. I’m pretty sure they do.